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Asia Regional Peer-to-Peer Learning Event on Food Labelling

Asia Regional Peer-to-Peer Learning Event on Food Labelling

April 22, 2024 - Last update: April 23, 2024

Food Labelling can effectively protect consumer health in terms of food safety and nutrition.  Labels on food convey information about the product’s identity and contents, and on how to handle, prepare and consume it safely.

Join the Scaling up Nutrition (SUN) Movement, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) for an interactive Peer-to-Peer Learning Event on Food Labelling

Main Objective: To provide a platform for exchange among key country stakeholders about needs for and experiences with food labelling in interested SUN countries in the Asia region.

Specific objectives:

  • Get to know and review in a participatory manner global and country level regulatory frameworks and guidelines for food/nutrition labelling 
  • Share experiences, i.e. good practices and challenges with food/nutrition labelling
  • Develop country level roadmaps for advancing the food/nutrition labelling agenda in the concerned countries.

Audience: SUN Coordinators and representative(s) of relevant country food and nutrition labelling bodies, FAO and WHO country representatives in the ten SUN countries under the  Asia Hub.

Where: Bangkok, Grande Centre Point Surawong

When: 22-24 April 2024

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Region
South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific West and Central Asia
Topics
Capacity strengthening Knowledge Sharing Nutrition-sensitive
Network/ SUN Global Support System
UN-Nutrition
Organization
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement World Health Organization (WHO)

Programme

Welcome and introduction

Morning Session 1

Speakers:

  1. Dr. Srikanth EADARA, Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat (SMS), Regional Representative- Asia
  2. Teresa Bevere and Dr. Lioba Weingärtner, GIZ C4N SUN
Coffee Break
Setting the frame

Morning session 2

  • Food labelling
  •  Nutrition labelling
  • Legal frameworks and guidelines
  • Key actors, roles & responsibilities

Speakers:

  1. Rosemary Kafa, FAO Regional Office
  2. Dr. Dr Angela de Silva, WHO Regional Office Exchange
Lunch Break
Exchange I

Good global and regional practices – sharing examples

Coffee break
Exchange I (Continuation)

Good global and regional practices – sharing examples

Country specific situations

Morning session 1

Challenges/risks and open questions (global and regional) – sharing examples

Coffee break
Country specific situations (Continued)

Morning session 2

Challenges/risks and open questions (global and regional) – sharing examples

Lunch Break
Exchange II

How to overcome challenges/risks – sharing examples

Coffee Break
Exchange II (Continuation)

How to overcome challenges/risks – sharing examples

Conclusions from the exchanges
Coffee Break
Transfer to country contexts and way forward

TA/CD needs, opportunites, challenges, next steps (country roadmaps)

Lunch break
Exchange III

Peer- learning from country specific ways forward

Coffee break
Wrap-up Evaluation & Closing

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